We have all had experiences where we have felt rejected, abandoned, and betrayed. The pain we experience in these moments can be greater than anything that causes us to bleed. Yet these “soul wounds” are not healed by a pill or anything tangible. Because these wounds are held within the subtle body (the emotional and spiritual body) we must tend to them using a different kind of medicine. We must embrace the medicine of love and compassion, allowing these regenerative forces to help us heal from the inside out.
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Self-compassion acts as a doorway to change and thus is a doorway to better health. When we cultivate a greater ability to hold compassion toward ourselves and others, we no longer remain “stuck” in old destructive patterns. We stop beating ourselves up repetitively whenever we perceive ourselves as having faltered because we realize that this only enhances our feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. By learning to hold ourselves in love, understanding, and forgiveness we stop taking our frustrations out on others we love or out on ourselves. We curb our risk for chronic dis-ease because we have broken free from painful self-limiting beliefs that would drive us to turn to things like food or alcohol to soothe our feelings of inadequacy.
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We can’t really begin saying YES to ourselves and to the future we want to create until we are confronted with the understanding of the ways in which we have said NO to ourselves, to our desires, and to our dreams. We can’t really begin the true healing journey heal until learn to really love ourselves until we become aware of the ways we have supported our own ongoing pain. If you are feeling ready to create big changes in your health and in your life, I am here to support you.
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When we learn to meet ourselves and meet God/Source within this sacred container, we become resilient. Our nervous system can appropriately move through our daily life in “rest and digest mode” and restore hormone balance, healthy digestion, and proper weight management. Because our bodies no longer need to produce cortisol in excess amounts, we are able to experience a place of much-needed rest and restore our "soul fatigue".
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The voice of depression says “it is hard to anticipate the rainbow when it feels like I am in a monsoon storm that will never end. “ Yet the moment we realize that the storm is there to support us not oppress us is just one way where we can begin to truly break free from the grips of depression.
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Give yourself permission to JUST BE.
Your body, mind, and soul will say “thank you” and reward you with good health.
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The health of our mind, body, and soul is directly influenced by the ways in which we love ourselves and
others whom we hold dear in our lives.
We must continue to nourish our minds, bodies, and relationships with the loving care and attention they
need in order for them to not just survive, but thrive. 🔥
As we embark on our quest of returning home to ourselves and returning to wholeness, we often attempt to avoid feeling the pain that accompanies shame by avoiding people and circumstances that make us feel inadequate and unworthy. But this is a futile, isolating, and exhausting diversion because transmuting shame and unworthiness is an inside job. We experience the freedom we seek not by avoiding shame, guilt, and fear but by becoming immune to it.
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Fear is anchored in the resonance of scarcity and erodes our health at the level of mind, body, and soul. When we are living in a scarcity mindset, there remains an underlying question of whether we are getting enough, doing enough, or whether we will ever be enough just as we are. If the message of lack and insufficiency is carried into our bodies via our nervous system, our stress hormones switch our sympathetic nervous system into overdrive. Over time this perpetual state of hypervigilance causes physiologic disruptions in our digestive health as well as the functioning of our organ systems resulting in hormonal and metabolic imbalances that may appear as weight gain, hot flashes, hypoglycemia, irritable bowel syndrome, and immune suppression.
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The secret to transforming your greatest fear..
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When we talk about addiction, we tend to think that it is the person or the substance that we are addicted to, but in reality, what we are actually addicted to comfort itself. Ultimately, in our quest for comfort, what we are really seeking at a deeper level is a remembrance of our own inner strength and resiliency.
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Love is an incredible healing force that can redeem us from the cloaks of shame that we have been accustomed to carry.
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I have learned to stop running from fear and now do my best to look it straight in the eye and say, “ I see you fear. Bring it on” simply because I know that each time I release myself from the constricting grip of fear I expand and further embraced by the healing power of love.
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As children we are deeply connected to the earth, to that which is physical. We instinctually experience life through our bodies having not yet cultivated the tendency to use our minds to filter and interpret our experiences. Our being is so connected in the present moment that we are not aware of how our minds are susceptible and vulnerable to the virus of shame, and so we don’t know to protect our minds from its poison that slowly and insidiously distances us from the truth of who we are.
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Can you feel it? That uncomfortable medley of emotions that blends the energies of rage, depression, denial, numbness, and anxiety together that sits as one big chaotic swirling energetic mass in the pit of our abdomen? Yes, I feel it too. We all do.
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Just because we are forced to physically isolate from one another during this time does not mean that we have to go through this experience alone. The need for self-care is exceptionally high right now and allowing others to care for us is key part of a self-care plan (along with restorative sleep, healthy nutrition, and time for rest and play). The need for self-care is exceptionally high right now and allowing others to care for us is key part of a self-care plan (along with restorative sleep, healthy nutrition, and time for rest and play). Being honest with ourselves on what we can do and what we cannot do from a place of compassion rather than judgement can help us lean into support with grace and gratitude. As human beings we are wired to be social creatures. Feeling like we can relate to and with others is key to our psychological need for love and belonging. When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable and held in the hands and care of another, we allow for greater intimacy and connection to exist in our relationships with our loved ones.
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